> Im trying to play a bit with log shipping between 2 servers primary and standby. These servers are running versions 8.3betat3. I had set up continuous archiving at the primary server. The manuals' example of archive_command is > archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/server/archivedir/%f </dev/null' > > This basically archives the data in the primary server itself...right!!! > But how can I set up continuous archiving from primary to a directory (WAL archive directory) > on the stand-by server ?
>>a. Mount the remote directory via NFS/SMBFS/... >>b. Use a remote copy, e.g. scp, FTP...
Thanks... I tried this command to both copy in the primary server and scp to standby server.
cp works but scp doesnt work. Is it becoz scp generally asks for password. I can do scp or ssh without password authentication but Im not sure if it is safe to do that.
